As the Fall semester wraps up at CalArts, the School of Theater presents two new productions beginning this week. The Firebugs, directed by Deena Selenow (Theater MFA 2), will run…
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Luis Camnitzer and Michele Wallace: A Town Hall on Art & Race in the 21st Century
Video, above, a behind-the-scenes look at the work of Luis Camnitzer for the 2010 MoMA exhibition On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century. Today at noon, the Art, Justice &…
Continue reading »Temporal Road Art: I-15’s ‘Window’ Courtesy of CalArts Alum
While billboards are often associated with urban blight, some artists use them as canvases for large-scale projects. Today (Dec. 2), southbound drivers on the I-15 (at the 91 Freeway intersection)…
Continue reading »New Art Exhibition in San Francisco Includes Works by Allan Sekula
[nggallery id=218] San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) opens its latest exhibition, Oceans and Campfires: Allan Sekula and Bruno Serralongue, today (Nov. 30) in the Walter and McBean Galleries on the…
Continue reading »CalArts Student Puppeteer Pulls Strings on The Muppets
[nggallery id=217] With the feature film The Muppets opening nationwide this week, puppeteer Chase Woolner, a fourth-year BFA student in CalArts’ School of Theater, can cross another item off his…
Continue reading »Writing Alum Sam Benjamin Discusses a ‘Brief History of Porn’
There’s another side to the Hollywood film industry that rarely makes the headlines in Variety. The adult film (pornography) business generally stays under the radar though it generates billions of…
Continue reading »Art Exhibition Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Womanhouse at CalArts
[nggallery id=215] A new exhibition at CalArts this week celebrates the 40th anniversary of Womanhouse—the 1971 groundbreaking art installation and performance space curated by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, co-founders…
Continue reading »Hollywood ‘Star’ Power: More Accolades For Disney/Pixar’s John Lasseter
[nggallery id=213] John Lasseter, chief creative officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, is on a roll. Earlier this year, the CalArts alum (Film/Video BFA 79) was named one…
Continue reading »Surprises in Silhouette around CalArts
[nggallery id=212] CalArts’ hallways were adorned in silhouette last week with works created by students in Leo Hobaica Jr.‘s Color and Design I class. The class, which is required for…
Continue reading »Photo Gallery: Families and Friends Immerse Themselves in CalArts Weekend
[nggallery id=”210″] More than 300 guests—family and friends of current CalArts students—attended the first-ever CalArts Weekend on Oct. 21-22. The weekend provided parents of current CalArts students an opportunity to…
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